Panoz mulls suing Nissan over ZEOD RC design

Too close for comfort?

It's hard not to notice the similarities between the DeltaWing Coupe and the Nissan ZEOD RC. Designer Ben Bowlby penned both machines, and Nissan says its racer is built in the same configuration as the DeltaWing hard top. Don Panoz, the man behind the DetaWing effort, finds the congruities between the two a little too close for comfort. While speaking with AutoWeek, Panoz said his company holds a number of patents on the design, and lawyers are already looking to see if Nissan infringed on DeltaWing intellectual property.

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The DeltaWing Coupe is set to debut at the Amereican Le Mans race at the Circuit of the Americas on September 21, while the Nissan ZEOD RC will debut at the FIA World Endurance Championship race at Fuji Speedway on October 18-20 in Japan. The racer will also compete at the 2014 24 Hours of Le Mans as an experimental vehicle. That is, so long as there's no legal trouble in the interim.

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